Hello,
I am getting ready to buy a new server to replace my current Woodcrest 5130 with 2GB RAM and SATA II.
I run a shared hosting business and I am in the mypits of growing the business very quickly. Once we were average 3 sign up per month are now seeing peeks of 5 signups PER DAY. So I need to start getting serious here.
My hosting is pretty standard, we are your typical host who markets to budget & overselling hosting market. Our direct competitor would be BlueHost I would say. You know Unlimited addon domain, emails, high disk and bandwidth offerings, etc.
So, Anyways,
I plan on getting about 2-3 new boxes to co-locate. We currently have dedicated servers now.
The new boxes will be
SuperMicro 1U Server
2 Processors - Intel Xeon Quad Core 5420 (2.5Ghz per core. Total 8 cores = 20Ghz!)
8GB ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-667 (Thinking of going to 12GB? max16GB)
4x500GB SATAII 7.2k HDDs Running Hardware RAID 1+0 - Adaptec SCSI RAID Card
Total cost $3k out the door.
I'm hoping I can stuff roughly 500 accounts per server. But with everyone using addon domains it can feel like 800 sites per server.
You think this config is good enough? Only thing I was contemplating is going with SCSI HDs but to get the 1TB space I want It will get VERY expensive. So It was cheaper to do raid 10 I think with WD Raid Edition SATA HDs with 16mb buffer.
Also you think 8GB ram is enough. For $175 more I can up to to 12G
Also, share your configs and info so we can compare. Thanks all.
I am getting ready to buy a new server to replace my current Woodcrest 5130 with 2GB RAM and SATA II.
I run a shared hosting business and I am in the mypits of growing the business very quickly. Once we were average 3 sign up per month are now seeing peeks of 5 signups PER DAY. So I need to start getting serious here.
My hosting is pretty standard, we are your typical host who markets to budget & overselling hosting market. Our direct competitor would be BlueHost I would say. You know Unlimited addon domain, emails, high disk and bandwidth offerings, etc.
So, Anyways,
I plan on getting about 2-3 new boxes to co-locate. We currently have dedicated servers now.
The new boxes will be
SuperMicro 1U Server
2 Processors - Intel Xeon Quad Core 5420 (2.5Ghz per core. Total 8 cores = 20Ghz!)
8GB ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-667 (Thinking of going to 12GB? max16GB)
4x500GB SATAII 7.2k HDDs Running Hardware RAID 1+0 - Adaptec SCSI RAID Card
Total cost $3k out the door.
I'm hoping I can stuff roughly 500 accounts per server. But with everyone using addon domains it can feel like 800 sites per server.
You think this config is good enough? Only thing I was contemplating is going with SCSI HDs but to get the 1TB space I want It will get VERY expensive. So It was cheaper to do raid 10 I think with WD Raid Edition SATA HDs with 16mb buffer.
Also you think 8GB ram is enough. For $175 more I can up to to 12G
Also, share your configs and info so we can compare. Thanks all.
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